The NatCen Blog

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Turnout reached a twenty year high of 69% in last year’s General Election.
What is behind this recovery in electoral participation in Britain? Analysis of the latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) data by John Curtice and Ian Simpson offers some important clues.

This really is one of the most interesting and unpredictable general elections we’ve seen for decades. Based on data from British Social Attitudes and its sister study Scottish Social Attitudes, we examine some of the headaches we think the next government will face.

A guest blog from Tom Hawthorn, Head of Electoral Policy at the Electoral Commission: Robust plans are in place ahead of the May elections, but it’s vital voters know what’s acceptable campaigning behaviour and where to report concerns.

This is the first in a series of blogs using the European Social Survey (ESS), a high quality survey across a number of European countries, to look at how the UK compares with the continent on some of the big issues coming up in the May General Election.